2019-10-01
- Daissy Dominguez (Class of 2010, Political Science major) of the Dominguez Legal Justice Center has been an amazing mentor to several of our Latina/Latino Studies majors over the years, providing students with hands-on experience working on immigration legal cases. Most recently, Latina/o Studies majors Mariana Barrajas and Rocio Salazar have interned with Daissy. The interns have worked on cases...
2019-09-09 - Due to little change in the lack of diversity in the Geosciences, a summer camp for girls was created, designed, organized, and implemented by PhD student Aida Guhlincozzi, a Geography major and Latina/Latino Studies minor, and Geology PhD candidate Julia Cisneros. This camp, hosted by the School of Earth, Society, and Environment (SESE), would engage and expose young women of color to the...
2019-09-06 - Our former student outreach coordinator and recent LLS major alum Zeke Acosta was featured on "Good Morning America" about being transgender and the support from his father and family. From a...- 2019-09-06 - Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring and Summer 2019! Spring 2019 L. Cacho (LLS 240, 343) N. Cardenas Gonzalez (TA-LLS 100) V. Cervantes (SPAN 254, 326) D. Cisneros (COMM 396) D. Coyoca (LLS 265, 396) J. Dowling (LLS 100) J. Mora (TA-LLS 100) F. Ngo (AAS 315) C....
2019-07-09 - How are artists, activists, and communities resetting the colonial clock? What does it mean to reinterpret political actions as insurgent performances? How might we transform the collaborative possibilities of scholarly work? In episode 92 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews curator, performer, and scholar...
2019-07-08 - Latina/Latino Studies Professor Julie Dowling was recently interviewed by International Public Radio (IPR) about the Supreme Court’s decision on the citizenship question on the US Census. Professor Dowling in currently Vice-Chair of the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations....
2019-06-24 - In 1954, Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing shots at the ceiling and calling for the independence of the island. Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (NYU Press, 2019) highlights Lebrón’s vanguard act to underscore the relationship between Puerto Rican...
2019-05-15 - In April Professor Sandra Ruiz was awarded both the LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by tenure-based faculty and the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Both awards are given to faculty who demonstrate sustained excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching. Ruiz was the only junior...
2019-05-14 - On April 18, 2019 several Latina/Latino Studies students presented their research at the Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium during the twelfth annual Undergraduate Research Week (April 14-20). The week is a celebration of student innovation and excellence in research across campus. Latina/Latino Studies major Bianca...
2019-03-27 - Over the last few years, Jonathan X. Inda has been working on a project that seeks to develop new ways to document, understand, and respond to the critical issue of state violence against two key racialized groups—Indigenous peoples and migrants/refugees—in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States. The project is...
2019-03-19 - On March 13th our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yuridia Ramirez was the winner of one of two Illinois Distinguished and Chancellor’s Emerging Scholars awards for her presentation at the 2019 Illinois Distinguished and Chancellor’s Emerging Scholars Symposium. The Symposium was an opportunity for the postdoctoral fellows in The Chancellor...- 2019-03-18 - The University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2018 and Winter 2018/2019 has recently been announced and we have many LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the list. Making it onto the list is determined by the scores instructors receive on their ICES evaluations by students....
2018-12-03 - Natalie Lira was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for the project, Demographic Patterns of Eugenic Sterilization in Three U.S. States: Mixed Methods Investigation of Reproductive Control of the "Unfit." This NIH R01 grant funds an interdisciplinary project that combines quantitative epidemiological...
2018-11-28 - Gilberto Rosas was named Associate in the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) for the academic year 2019-2020. As a CAS awardee, he will complete Witness: Testimony and the Ends of Refuge, a book that addresses the competing ends of refuge as it plays out in the complexities of immigration and asylum proceedings and the often...
2018-10-16 - In an article for PBS American Experience Professor Natalie Lira discusses her research on the impact eugenics had on the sterilization of Mexican American women in California during the early decades of the 20th century. Lira begins the article by focusing on the case in 1930 of Concepcion Ruiz, a 16-year-old Mexican-American girl...